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China, Google and the Cloud Wars

Your personal data still aren't safe.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Updated Jan. 22, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

What does Google know about you? What does the Chinese government know about you?

Now you know a less-spoken reason why Google has gone to the mattresses over Chinese hacking. Always in the cards, since the birth of the Web, was the possibility that some great Internet business—a Yahoo or Google or Amazon or Facebook—would be destroyed overnight...